ENGLISH CRICKET TOUR
RAIN AFFECTS PROFITS Press Association CHRISTCHURCH. Thursday. A summary of the financial position resulting from the Marylebone Cricket Club’s tour of New Zealand was presented by Mr. D. E. Wanklyn at a meeting of the New Zealand Cricket Council this evening. The receipts were: Guarantees, £2.625: cash from Australia. £3.574; first test, £486; second test, £740; third test. £B2: fourth test, £704: total, £8,211. The expenses were as follow: Tour in New Zealand. £4,942; in Australia. £1,133; first test, £237; second test, £93: third and fourth tests, £399; total, £6,504. The net surplus was £1,407. Mr. Wanklyn announced also that an amount of £3Bl, income tax charged in Australia, had been remitted under agreement with the M.C.C. The surplus would have to be devoted to recompensing the M.C.C. for the payment of the professional players with the team. Those fees totalled £1,600, and £1,400 would be available to meet them. But for rain the council would probably have been able to pay the Marylebone Club in full and hav«> bad ‘ £I,OOO profit.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 979, 23 May 1930, Page 8
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175ENGLISH CRICKET TOUR Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 979, 23 May 1930, Page 8
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